NGS platform to generate additional clinical data to build out the Skyline-Helomics D-CHIP bioinformatics platform MINNEAPOLIS — Skyline Medical Inc. (NASDAQ:SKLN) (“Skyline” or the “Company”), producer of the FDA-approved STREAMWAY® System for automated, direct-to-drain medical fluid disposal, today announced that it is expanding into Next Generation Sequencing (“NGS”) through the licensing of an NGS platform MiSeqDx®, from Illumina. […]

ArcticZymes today announced the expansion of their polymerase portfolio. The IsoPol™ SD⁺ and IsoPol™ BST⁺ deliver low temperature isothermal polymerases, one with increased strand displacement, and the second an improvement over existing Bacillus stearothermophilus available today. IsoPol™ SD+ is a DNA polymerase with stronger strand displacement activity, and higher salt tolerance compared to ArcticZymes first […]

— Aims to accelerate manufacturing of new treatments for broad range of serious diseases — Underscores MilliporeSigma as a leading contract manufacturing organization and commercial provider of viral vectors for gene therapy BURLINGTON, Mass. — MilliporeSigma today announced that it has signed a commercial supply agreement to manufacture viral vectors for bluebird bio, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for […]

WALTHAM, Mass. — Juno Therapeutics (NASDAQ: JUNO) and Thermo Fisher Scientific have entered into a partnership for Juno to use Thermo Fisher’s Cell Therapy Systems (CTS) activation reagents in the manufacturing of its chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapies. Under the seven-year nonexclusive licensing and supply agreement, Juno has obtained rights to use CTS Dynabeads CD3/CD28 […]

TOKYO – JSR Corporation agreed with Crown Bioscience International (hereinafter “Crown”, Registration: Cayman Islands, CEO:Jean-Pierre Wery, a listed company in TPEx: 6554), which is a contract research organization (“CRO”) providing services to pharmas to support drug development in pre-clinical phases, to acquire 100% ownership of the Company and make it a subsidiary of JSR (the […]

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — SomaGenics, an RNA-focused biotechnology company, expands its IP protection with three newly issued patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering two of the Company’s core RNA detection technologies: targeted small RNA sequencing (RealSeq®-T) and quantitative PCR analysis of RNA fragments (ResQ®), as well as SomaGenics’ therapeutic sshRNA®s. A patent […]

Epigenetic Markers and Sustained Cytoprotection for Stroke Treatment IRVINE, Calif. — Zymo Research Corp. has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The STTR Program requires small businesses to collaborate with a research institution. The program’s goals according to their website are as follows: Stimulate technological innovation. Foster […]

We are happy to announce the release of the new Globin Block Modules for QuantSeq kits. These modules extend the functionality of the QuantSeq 3’ mRNA-Seq Library Prep, for gene expression profiling of whole blood, which is one of the most challenging sample types for transcriptome studies. Blood is a highly informative, fairly low cost, and […]

It is our pleasure to announce that, as of today, Biognosys is providing a Spectronaut™ Pulsar Viewer to the proteomics community. The Spectronaut Pulsar Viewer is currently the only MCP-compliant viewer software for DIA experiments submitted to Molecular & Cellular Proteomics (MCP). The Spectronaut Pulsar Viewer allows researchers to review published DIA data. By providing […]

Potato pangenome research drives cooperation between international public and private sectors Ness Ziona, Israel – NRGene, the worldwide leader in genomic assembly and analysis, is working with a team of researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands and leading commercial partners to create multi-genome mapping of commercial food potatoes. Potatoes are the fourth […]